{"id":322922,"date":"2026-05-19T14:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T14:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/322922\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T14:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T14:46:09","slug":"willie-nelson-family-announce-california-tour-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/322922\/","title":{"rendered":"Willie Nelson &#038; Family Announce California Tour Dates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Willie Nelson &amp; Family will head out to California in July for six newly announced tour dates [<a href=\"https:\/\/ticketmaster.evyy.net\/1GP9xz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">get tickets<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Following an Independence Day run through Texas\u2014including Willie\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/liveforlivemusic.com\/news\/willie-nelson-lineups-2026-outlaw-festival-tour-4th-of-july-picnic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">4th of July Picnic<\/a> in Austin\u2014the new tour dates will pick up on July 12th at Costa Mesa\u2019s\u00a0Pacific Amphitheatre at the OC Fair. From there, the Nelsons will travel to Saratoga for two nights at The Mountain Winery (7\/14\u20137\/15), Napa for the\u00a0Blue Note Napa Summer Sessions (7\/17), Murphys\u2019 Ironstone Amphitheatre (7\/19), and finally the\u00a0California Mid-State Fair in Paso Robles (7\/22).<\/p>\n<p>Members of Willie\u2019s Club Luck will have first dibs on pre-sale tickets beginning today, May 19th, at 10 a.m. PT. Tickets for the new Willie Nelson California tour dates will go on sale to the general public on Thursday, May 21st, at 10 a.m. PT via <a href=\"https:\/\/ticketmaster.evyy.net\/1GP9xz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ticketmaster<\/a> and Nelson\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/willienelson.com\/pages\/tour\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>. [Editor\u2019s note: Live For Live Music may earn a commission from tickets purchased via <a href=\"https:\/\/ticketmaster.evyy.net\/1GP9xz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the links on this page<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p>Later this month, Willie Nelson will release his 79th solo studio album, Dream Chaser. Arriving May 29th, the LP features \u201cI Can\u2019t Read Your Mind\u201d, a new song Nelson wrote with\u00a0Bob Dylan and Willie\u2019s longtime collaborator\u00a0Buddy Cannon. \u201cI Can\u2019t Read Your Mind\u201d marks the first time Willie and Bob have shared songwriting credits since \u201cHeartland\u201d on Nelson\u2019s 1993 album Across the Borderline. Willie and Bob recently toured together in 2024 and 2025 on Nelson\u2019s traveling Outlaw Music Festival circuit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBob Dylan and I were talking a while back about writing a song together,\u201d Nelson told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/willie-nelson-is-92-and-feeling-lucky\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GQ<\/a> last year. \u201cHe had an idea of \u2018I can\u2019t read your mind.\u2019 We started with, \u2018I can\u2019t read your mind. The letters are too small.\u2019 I handed that over to Buddy, and he took it and turned it into a good song. That\u2019s pretty rare with Bob.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Willie Nelson \u2014 \u201cDream Chaser\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ticketmaster.evyy.net\/1GP9xz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-545191\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/700430214_18590342968006137_8153282374293956650_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"625\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Willie Nelson &amp; Family will head out to California in July for six newly announced tour dates [get&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[134513,7,9,8,97189,134514,134515,134516,134517,134518,134519,134520,134521,134522,134523,134524,134525,134526,134527,134528],"class_list":["post-322922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-bob-dylan","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-willie-nelson","tag-willie-nelson-4th-of-july","tag-willie-nelson-age","tag-willie-nelson-bob-dylan","tag-willie-nelson-california","tag-willie-nelson-costa-mesa","tag-willie-nelson-dream-chaser","tag-willie-nelson-live","tag-willie-nelson-murphys","tag-willie-nelson-napa","tag-willie-nelson-new-album","tag-willie-nelson-paso-robles","tag-willie-nelson-saratoga","tag-willie-nelson-songs","tag-willie-nelson-tickets","tag-willie-nelson-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}